Loup Mechant- L'artisan

L’artisan boutique was on my way today and I couldn’t lose the chance to try another perfume of theirs!

I tried Mechant Loop which means Bad wolf and actually reminds me the little red riding hood story. Actually, this fragrance is designed for men but who cares?

As a teenager, I used to wear men’s perfume a lot. Aqua di Gio and Gaultier were my favorites.

The description of this one is: The scent of the forest, with a fairytale twist

Bertrand Duchaufour’s abstract portrait of the hazelnut tree. Méchant Loup (Big Bad Wolf) is alive with forest scents: dry leaves, smoke and woods.
liquorice, hazelnut, cedar, honey

On initial application I got the liquorice! I love that top note. It’s sweet here and really balanced. It goes away quickly thought….
Then it turns to a green perfume.  The main note is cedar. Now that I know that this has hazelnut I can definitely smell it in my clothes. Before, I was smelling something toasted and smoky but I couldn’t place it! I thought that this has a tiny bit of green apple too.

All in all,This perfume it’s lovely and quite unique but unfortunately it doesn’t really last on my skin.

Outpost-Solstice Scents

PERFUME:  Outpost

COMPANY: Solstice Scents

AVAILABILITY: Winter limited edition

OFFICIAL DESCRIPTION: Sugar Crystals, Spruce, Fir, Soft Woods, Bayberry, Mistletoe, Amber

BEFORE I SMELL: This sounds so promising. Like walking in the woods while it’s snowing

FROM THE DECANT/BOTTLE:  This is so soft from the imp. I get sugar and a hint of patchouli.

WET ON SKIN: Patchouli with fir and light cedar

DRY DOWN: This is not strong at all to my skin.  It’s a light Christmassy blend.

FINAL THOUGHTS: This felt leally bland to my skin, nothing spectacular. But a lot of people love this one and it’s one of the company’s best sellers. It would be suitable for someone who wanted a light not overpowering  perfume.

By the way, this day 39!

Bohun Upas- Bpal

PERFUME: Bohun Upas

COMPANY: Bpal

AVAILABILITY: Genaral Ctalog in the Rappaccini’s garden section.

OFFICIAL DESCRIPTION: The Tree of Poisons. Every aspect of this tree is toxic, from the narcotic, lethal fumes that it emits, to its oozing, poisonous sap.

A deceptively tranquil scent: heady fruits, dry bark, and deep green leaves, enveloped by a dark and sinister murk.

BEFORE I SMELL: This was a frimp from my recent order.  I am excepting this to be green and dark.

FROM THE DECANT/BOTTLE: Something fruity but I can’t pin point exactly which fruit this is. Maybe apple or pear. I also get pine with a hint of cedar.

WET ON SKIN: Green banana?  Pine and fern.

DRY DOWN: This morphs and it starts smelling very clean with a hint of something spicy on the backround. I still get the fruits. I much prefer this stage of the scent and I can see myself wearing when the weather gets warmer but I don’t need a full bottle

FINAL THOUGHTS:  If you enjoy pine-fruity scents this one is for you. In my opinion is a gender neutral scent, actually it may be better on a guy.

IF YOU LIKE THIS YOU WILL LIKE:   Thorns-Bpal

Bpal- Smut 2012

Bpal  last night come up with a new update and the return of Smut! The new update it’s called “Our lady of pain” and it’s inspired by a poem written by Swinburne

I haven’t even bought any of the new Lupercalias scents yet and now this! This perfumes sound a lot darker and deeper! I am so into that kind of scents!

The ones I am most interested in are:

OUR LADY OF PAIN: Sumatran patchouli, blood musk, white lavender, opium tar, and black orchid.

THE LILIES AND LANGUORS OF VIRTUE

Calla lilies and lily of the valley with white lilac, narcissus, osmanthus, asphodel, and Egyptian musk.

LIPS FULL OF LUST AND LAUGHTER

 Red musk, wildflower honey, elemi, tangerine, and mint.

FEED ME AND FILL ME WITH PLEASURE

Black patchouli, honey, and thick vanilla amber.

O DAUGHTER OF DEATH AND PRIAPUS

Black opium, wild plum, cypress tar, Bulgarian rose, olibanum, black orchid, and tobacco.

I know I can’t buy all of these though. I will wait for reviews first. These will stay up until April the first( I think)

Do you find anything interesting in this new update?

Now, the mini review of the day!

PERFUME: Smut

COMPANY: BPAL

AVAILABILITY: Lupercalia limited edition

OFFICIAL DESCRIPTION: Three swarthy, smutty musks sweetened with sugar and woozy with dark booze notes.

BEFORE I SMELL: I love sugary and boozy notes!

FROM THE DECANT/BOTTLE: Last year when I first smelt my decant I got the evil cherry and I hide it away. Let’s see if behaves after some aging.

Yep, The cherry it’s just an idea now. I am so relieved, I can put it on!

WET ON SKIN: The boozy note is something like sweet wine.  The sugar is not overwhelming here. Maybe there is incense in this too!

DRY DOWN: The lab’s red musk but a little bit sweeter. Years ago I didn’t like that note but lately I love it! I also get black musk. I am wondering which is the third one.

FINAL THOUGHTS: To my skin this is a simple blend but I really like it and I think I will buy a bottle before it comes down.

It’s a very sexy scent that stays close to the skin.

IF YOU LIKE THIS YOU WILL LIKE:    Scheherazade bpal for something spicier!

 pic from: blackphoenixgazette.com

Black Forest-Solstice Scents

Happy Valentines Day!

It doesn’t matter if you are not in love or if you don’t want to be with someone. To me this day is all about love! Love to your parents, friends, pets, yourself! It’s just the perfect reason to celebrate, eat chocolate, wear something red and your favorite Valentine inspired perfume!

Today, I am going to wear the same perfume as last year:  Black Forest from Solstice Scents! Before I tried this perfume I could swear that I hated cherrynotes! Even today they remind me a cough syrup. I got a sample of this and from first sniff I was in Love!  Angela did her magic again!

The picture is from a Black forest that I made last year. Today, my boyfriend isn’t so lucky as I didn’t had time to make one. I just bought us handmade white chocolate bars with cranberry!! Yum!

PERFUME: :  Black Forest

COMPANY: Solstice Scents

AVAILABILITY: They made this permanent!

OFFICIAL DESCRIPTION: Agarwood, Nagarmotha EO, Tobacco Absolute, Dark Chocolate, Milk Chocolate, Cocoa Absolute, Maraschino Cherries, Black Cherries, Hay Absolute, Sandalwood EO, Whipped Cream & a drop of Pink Peppercorn Essential Oil

FROM THE DECANT/BOTTLE: Cherry liquor and cocoa. Addictively good.

WET ON SKIN:  Cocoa absolute with milk chocolate. The cherry is prominent but like I said it remind me cherry liquor. The woodiness from the agarwood and Nagarmotha goes exceptionally well with the cherries and chocolate notes.  You can tell that she used high quality ingredients in this perfume. Some chocolate fragrances, they just don’t feel right and the dry to something like vanilla but not this one!

 In this scent all the elements are blended together very well to make an awesome blend.

DRY DOWN: I can smell this for hours when I wear it. I get chocolate and tobacco whiffs now and then and I really enjoy it!

Smoky Mountain Mallow

PERFUME:  Smoky Mountain Mallow

COMPANY: Solstice Scents

AVAILABILITY: Permanent!

OFFICIAL DESCRIPTION: Wood Smoke, Fossilized Amber Resin, Lapsang Souchong CO2, Guaiacwood, Labdanum, Nutmeg EO, Marshmallow

BEFORE I SMELL: After reading Rachel’s amazing review from TheBrightest Star of All blog, I needed to try this! Please read Rachel’s review here because she described the scent perfectly and she also included a ghost story in her post!

Guaiacwood from a fragrantica article ”is a small tree that is also known as guayacan. Guaiac Wood is one of the hardest and most resilient woods in the world.

Odor profile: Exotic wood note that has tar-like, phenolic facets, imparting smoky, tarmac notes in perfumes”

FROM THE DECANT/BOTTLE: Wood smoke, just like someone has started a fire near you! My sister said fireplace and I agree. I also get a scent which reminds me blue alcohol.

WET ON SKIN: This is so literal, I can smell the fire!! It’s a little bit sour like if it had a vinegar note but this note goes away fast.

DRY DOWN: The lapsang Souchong it’s very dry and smoky but Nutmeg really helps to round things up. I was afraid the tea note the most in that blend but it plays nicely! This is sophisticated blend for sure. Now it changes and I get all that gooey marshmallow scent that I know and Love!

FINAL THOUGHTS: No barbeque associations just a cold day close to the fire! Love it!

IF YOU LIKE THIS YOU WILL LIKE:   Lapsang Souchong-  Possets , The gorroble-Bpal( very similar indeed!)

Possets-Bar Sinister

PERFUME: Bar Sinister

COMPANY: Possets

AVAILABILITY: Permanent

OFFICIAL DESCRIPTION: Green Bourbon vanilla extract, sweetbriar, a powerful green musk, and a very highly refined leather, a background of labdenum, and a high and intoxicating silk accord. If you were born to gentry, you might have a stripe running from right to left on which you would have some heraldic figure. That is if you were legitimate. if you were the love child of a powerful man, you might  have a coat of arms with the bar running from left to right and the same figures on it to show who your father was and why you were powerful. This wasn't always granted, but often enough to have the bar sinister be a feature in heraldry. All of the elements of illicit love at play here. Sultry sultry sultry. 

Type: Resinous, incense, musky, sexy

BEFORE I SMELL: Sweetbriar is a species of rose. I haven’t heard this before and I am curious how it behaves in a blend. I love all the other notes even though “green” vanilla and “green” musk are new to me. Maybe it’s a vanilla accord fortified with green elements. I don’t know.

FROM THE DECANT/BOTTLE: From the bottle I don’t get rose but a little bit of fern and booze.

WET ON SKIN: It blooms to the skin! I smell the silk accord and I know Fabienne had used it to other blends before. How I love this note!  The vanilla it’s different from the regular vanillas. It doesn’t remind me vanilla extract. The leather it’s the one I love! No car seats but lovely high end purse shop in Paris!

DRY DOWN: I do get a boozy note still, like an aged whiskey.  Labdenum is one of my best loved notes. I smell it here but it isn’t a labdanum scent.

FINAL THOUGHTS I loved this from the first time I wore it as my day scent. It stays hours on my skin and it’s becoming even better. When I first got my decant of this I didn’t loved it immediately. So, give to this perfume a little bit time and it won’t disappoint you!